Online Casino Transfer: News - Delay on French Poker Regulation

06/25/2010		Online Casino Style: News Delay on French Poker Regulation
Home History Games News Dictionary		In spite of the piles of news from online gambling companies as they make preparations and strategic agreements to earn a French internet casino license, it can be difficult to remember that liberalization process is not quite over. Malta, one of the leading homes for offshore internet gambling companies, could have potentially thrown a wrench in the works this week with a complaint filed against the new French law as it applies to online poker. According to a report by the news website Connexion France, the internet poker plans have been delayed for a month, in spite of the enforcement of the new regulations for online sports betting and horse racing wagers. The timing for those categories was crucial to collude with the start of the FIFA World Cup this month, but there are no pressing event forcing poker’s progress, which has now been hindered partially by the island of Malta. Reports claim that Malta has issued their formal complaints against the new law in relation to poker, which requires that the operators for poker platforms be based in France. They say that the stipulation is contradictory to the whole purpose of the liberalization, which was to comply with European Union rules on the free movement of goods and services between member nations. Mandating the online gambling companies be based in France is exactly the opposite. France will have their extra month to consider the complaint made by Malta and determine if it has merit. For those firms that offer an array of services, for now they will only be permitted to open up the sports gambling ones, and hold back accessibility to poker games. Connexion also predicted that the gambling regulator for France, ARJEL, would make public this week the names of 15 betting companies that will be able to operate in France legally.

06/25/2010

Online Casino Style: News
Delay on French Poker Regulation

In spite of the piles of news from online gambling companies as they make preparations and strategic agreements to earn a French internet casino license, it can be difficult to remember that liberalization process is not quite over. Malta, one of the leading homes for offshore internet gambling companies, could have potentially thrown a wrench in the works this week with a complaint filed against the new French law as it applies to online poker.

According to a report by the news website Connexion France, the internet poker plans have been delayed for a month, in spite of the enforcement of the new regulations for online sports betting and horse racing wagers. The timing for those categories was crucial to collude with the start of the FIFA World Cup this month, but there are no pressing event forcing poker’s progress, which has now been hindered partially by the island of Malta.

Reports claim that Malta has issued their formal complaints against the new law in relation to poker, which requires that the operators for poker platforms be based in France. They say that the stipulation is contradictory to the whole purpose of the liberalization, which was to comply with European Union rules on the free movement of goods and services between member nations. Mandating the online gambling companies be based in France is exactly the opposite.

France will have their extra month to consider the complaint made by Malta and determine if it has merit. For those firms that offer an array of services, for now they will only be permitted to open up the sports gambling ones, and hold back accessibility to poker games. Connexion also predicted that the gambling regulator for France, ARJEL, would make public this week the names of 15 betting companies that will be able to operate in France legally.